Nationalism, Civilization and Transnational Relations

The discourse of Greater China

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8088872
AutoresWilliam A Callahan (0000-0001-6103-0586, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen14
Número43
Páginas269-289
Fecha de publicación2005-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Contemporary China (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1067-0564 • E-ISSN: 1469-9400
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10670560500065629
OpenAlexW2013311866
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14

This essay examines the interplay between nationalism and foreign policy in China—but with a twist. It seeks to loosen up analytical categories to expand from cultural nationalism to see how civilization constructs identity in national and transnational ways. It examines the limits of Chinese trans/nationalism according to the main Chinese expression of inside/outside—‘civilization/barbarism’—as it constructs Chinese nationalism and Greater China. The purpose is to both critically examine Chinese nationalism and to trace what our focus on the nation-state obscures: namely, transnational politics. Rather than recounting one master narrative of Chinese nationalism, the essay argues that civilization and barbarian define Greater China according to four narratives—nativism, conquest, conversion and diaspora. Hence, the essay does not merely deconstruct the notion of Greater China and Chinese nationalism, but shows how these four grids of meaning can help us to understand identity politics and foreign policy debates in China. Nationalism thus turns from being the Answer about the true intent of China, to being a series of questions which define different terrains of political inquiry

China · Civilization · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Gender Studies · Law

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